As it turned out the Ohio State game was the last one Marshall would lose — and would be as close as Ohio State came to defeat on the way to the nat...ional championship."I recruited Tom here pretty hard," Coach Brower said. "And we've kept in touch. He's figured out what your problem is, but he couldn't figure out a way to tell you."So he called me. I talked to Coach Brown — you know he used to work for me, right? He told me to come on over."Son, when you drop back to pass, tell me what you do."I. ." Carol?" Yes?" I answered."You'd best get dressed... my hour's almost up."I smiled my thanks and reached for my clothing. My thoughts were in turmoil. It was a lot of money... but, effectively it meant exiling myself. But why not? What did I have here? A rented, run down flat with both rising damp and dry rot, a few sticks of second hand furniture and an overdrawn bank account. No family, hardly any friends. None of that seemed to count for much really. However, I did have Master... and what. “Oh?”“Jennifer’s pregnant. She’s due in February!” I said with a grin.“Hot damn!” Stephie gushed. “Congratulations! I knew you said you was goin’ to try. Looks like you were successful.”“That’s one reason I was kind of unsure about what to do about LeAnn. I guess the responsibility of having a kid is weighing on me a bit.”“Did you talk to Bethany or Kara about it?”“Both. Kara was pretty blunt in saying I should do it be because it might be my last fling, or close to it.”“Because you’re going to. He told me that he could arrange for me to just walk out the door andtake a bus to the bus depot on the other side of town where he or one ofhis agents would meet me and take over.I readily agreed to do anything he said, with an evil laugh hedisappeared and I again heard the music and laughter from the next room,and ...I was a girl of about 10 0r 11 years old and was wearing a short,sleeveless, pink dress with a white floral print and I was carrying ashoulder bag, I knew, somehow, that I was.